Word: airlinese
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
"Two's company, three's a crowd," the cliché goes-especially, as claustrophobic college students are learning this fall, when schools shoehorn three roommates into quarters meant for two. College dorms, of course, have been crowded for years. But no one was expecting a bulge this year...
These plans are only the latest salvos in the air-fare war. This month Pan Am, TWA and some foreign flag carriers will begin offering New York-London cut-rate fares that compete with the $236 round-trip Skytrain shuttle designed by Britain's upstart Laker Airways. Within the...
Many major airlines view the trend away from standard fixed fares with varying degrees of horror and resignation. The airlines are at last making money again: having lost by one estimate $94 million as recently as 1975, the major carriers could collectively earn a record $500 million this year, thanks...
The answer is the threat of charter competition and fear of Government deregulation. Fare cutting really began to take off after the Civil Aeronautics Board approved the Advance Booking Charters, liberalized charter schemes that promise to become the hottest thing in cut-rate travel. At the same time, the scheduled...
The deregulation push has split the scheduled airlines into two warring camps. Certain carriers, notably United, whose fleet of 364 planes is the nation's largest, believe they could survive and benefit from the new competition that would come if Washington threw the airline business open to any and...